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COUNTRY"
by Alan PaLOIl,
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, l'HIS first novel by South
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African writer Alan Paton
has already been published .
in America, where it was received :
with almost extravagant enthll- .
siasm. Possibly the reason was
tllat it reveals the fact that
America is not the only country
with a colour problem.
But the book is remarkable in
its own right.
It has literary
merits which 'must command
. universal respect. ' In addition. it
. ha.~ wisdom and understanding.
and its story · should move anyone capable of response to an
appeal to heart 'and mind.
The Reverend Stephen Kllmalo,
a Zulu parson of a Natal village.
is summoned to
Johannesburg by
BOOK OF
a message from '
his 10 n g - los t
THE DAY
sister. It will be
by
his first visit to
the city and the
' DANIEL
daunts
GEORGE prospect
him. 'W hen.'
people go to
Johannesburg they never come
' back. The place had swallowed .
' up his son Absalom. .
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Kumalo finds his sister leading
a dissolute lit'e. Havin~ rescued
her he begins a search for his
son. It ~akes him into scenes of
evil he bad -never sll~pected.
There 'ill Johannesburg', the
world's greatest gold-protlucing
centre. a black proletariat· exists
wi~h crlminal element.~ undoing '
the good work of the native
tellcilers and white sympaLhisers,
Nothing that Kumalo can get ·
to heal' of Absalom brings any
,comfort; The boy had been in a '
reformatory. he learns, and had
,there done welt. . What has be·
.come .of him since? The quest
has begun to seem hopeless when
Kumalo reads this headline in n
newspaper : .. Murder in Park!l'old, Wcll·knoll;n Cil.y engineer
Shot Dc(uL, Assailants Thought
to be NCLtive."
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The murdered man was president of the African BOYS' Club,
and a. consisten·t champion of the ,
rights o.! natives. His father owns
a fa.rm near Kurnalo's village,
Absal:>m is proved to have 'b een .
one ' of ·the .. assailants." His
companions give evidence against
him. A white counsel undertakes
his defence,' He Is condemned to
death. Raclal antagonisms · Rre
al·ous'!d. . The two ' sorrowing
.fathers m~t . . . . ' ,
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for the last 12 years ' the
.author has been principal of the
Diepkloof . Reformatory. Johanne~burg. an institution for delinquent African boys, He therefore
.' knows , his subject.: . ~ .. l'o,